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Chandler and Jacob talk about the filmmaker John Waters and review Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974).
Chandler & Jacob Review the 2014 Cartoon Network animated series, Over the Garden Wall.
Chandler has a crush on Burt Lancaster, Jacob fumbles his explanation of Italian history, and they both review the classic Luchino Visconti film, The Leopard (1963).
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Not every number hits, but you never get the feeling anyone is phoning it in. I would be remiss to mention that two of these sequences were sure-fire out-of-the-park homeruns.
I was surprised at just how much of the run time I spent watching a still room from the edge of my seat. It strips the idea of an invisible person of all the goofy novelty the previous adaptations were full of and instills it with horror.
The set up is ripe for scares, but "Come To Daddy" knows exactly where you think it's going, and takes the hardest left turns possible to varying degrees of success.
Our ratings for the movies released in 2019 that we never got around to reviewing or alternative ratings for film’s already reviewed.
While I can concede that the technical aspects of this film are a marvel, the one-take approach is ironically enough the biggest detractor from this claim for me.
Despite a seemingly glaring visual problem, Cats managed to get made and released without anyone seriously questioning that it looked like a feline-inspired nightmare fever dream.
The Safdie brothers are at the forefront in turning anxiety into a film genre, and Uncut Gems might be their finest example to date.
The staged unveiling of the pope’s mystique is what makes The Two Popes such an engaging viewing, even if it is ultimately an uneven one.
The Star Wars train has left the station, if you’re not on board you will be forcibly bound, gagged, and dragged behind. At least, that’s the feeling that The Rise of Skywalker gives you; once the movies starts there’s no stopping the avalanche.
Director Trey Edward Shults continues a trend of unpredictability with his latest feature-length effort, Waves, an Altman-esque story of a Miami family facing a steadily increasing spider web of problems.
A celebration of beautiful cinema from the last decade and a spotlight for movies that we think have created lasting images.
Let’s take a moment to pontificate over the finer performances of the decade in an easily digestible (and just as easily contestable) list-like format.
Why studios are releasing more extended cuts lately from Sider-man: Far From Home to Midsommar and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Thoughts on the benefits of watching a movie twice.
UNDER THE SILVER LAKE AND THE CULT APPEAL OF THE STONOIRE
Boring the audience is the greatest sin a film can commit. Everything else is comparatively trivial.
Recent attempts at these adaptations have proven to be able to make a profit, but what these adaptations lack compared to adaptations of literature or stageplays, is cultural staying power.